There has never been a better time to launch your online business. If you already operate one, this is the perfect time to expand it.

The economy continues to limp along, trying to regain its feet. Meanwhile, savvy online business owners are using this opportunity to dominate a larger part of their markets. Like the Great Depression, the recession has paved the way for smart marketers to deliver value in return for immense profit. Keep in mind; it was during the Depression that new advertising platforms opened up. Young companies such as P&G, Disney, and Chevrolet took advantage of print media and radio spots to quickly reach a larger audience.

You can take advantage of this same opportunity today by leveraging free internet marketing techniques to grow your online business. Today, I’ll give you a blueprint for using the recession as a launch pad for grabbing a larger portion of your market.

Develop Your Marketing Proficiency

Have you ever wondered how some sites manage to control the top positions in Google for all of their main keywords? It does not happen by accident. Many of the owners behind those sites invested time to master search engine optimization strategies that helped them capture that territory. You can do the same. Strengthen your marketing knowledge in areas that directly influence your business.

Learn SEO techniques, PHP programming, social media marketing, and PPC advertising tactics. Take time to understand how various online business models work. Even if you’re not currently operating membership sites, selling information products, or building a blog network, learning how they work can lay the groundwork to expand your empire later. Develop proficiencies. They will pay off in the future.

Build Your Online Reputation

Your authority in your space matters. The better your reputation, the bigger your audience. And a larger audience leads to a higher volume of product sales, ad clicks, and profits.

The best way to build on your online reputation is to deliver a continuing wave of high-quality content. You might remember a few months back when I explained how to create a Wordpress blog. A blog is an ideal platform from which you can deliver valuable content to your audience. You should also use Twitter marketing tactics, guest blogging, free PDF reports, and article syndication to drive traffic to your sites. Remember, the recession has not curbed people’s insatiable desire for information. Online reputations are built – and lost – based upon content.

Plants Seeds To Expand Your Reach

When the economy is robust and your customers are buying every product you launch or promote, it’s easy to neglect your long-term marketing strategies. These strategies work similar to a savings account; the efforts you invest today will yield dividends in the future. By planting your marketing seeds during the recession, you’re building your future harvest of online profits.

Advertising costs have plummeted as marketers have tightened their promotional purse strings. There are fewer people willing to buy up ad spots on Facebook, popular blogs, and other authority sites. Even bid prices on the Big 3 of the PPC world (Adwords, YSM, and Microsoft adCenter) have tumbled. Just as today’s corporate giants once leveraged cheap advertising during the Great Depression, you can plant your own seeds inexpensively to bring more people to your sites.

A lot of online marketers think the current recession is a dark cloud on their income-generating sites. In reality, the opposite is true. This is a perfect time to develop your marketing skills and strengthen your online reputation. It is also a great opportunity to take advantage of low advertising costs on popular sites. Whether you’re building Adsense-driven websites, selling information products, or becoming a super-affiliate in your space, use this recession to build momentum in your online business.

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• Learn how to create a blog with the Beginner to Blogger in 4 Weeks eCourse
• My own hot start marketing mentoring program!
  

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I’ve always underlined the power of having great content. Your content should be a very interesting grapevine for the community of your chosen niche, and not a lifeless fact sheet. However, no matter how mouth-watering your content is, if there is nobody to read it, it won’t make you a cent. Traffic is the heart of your blog especially if you really want to make money with Google AdSense. In order to attract people, you must simply offer above average content. However, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. Where do people look when they need information? Of course they search using search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, to name just a few popular ones.

So, to attract these folks to your blog, your blog needs to rank high on search result pages of these search engines. When people search for information through the search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog! The art of getting your blog or website onto high rankings on search result pages is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

It could be quite a complex subject to master, but that doesn’t stop us from learning simple yet effective techniques to conquer the search results for certain keywords.Tougher techniques are usually needed to fight for very competitive and general keywords such as “make money”, but I’ll teach you how to overcome that later. For now, let’s determine the keywords that you want to optimize your site for. For instance, your blog says make money. Now, you’d want to check in Google whether it is a very competitive keyword. As of now, there are 227,000,000 search results. Do you think you can beat 227,000,000 sites at your first attempt? I doubt it.

Now, let’s try to narrow down our scope. Let’s look for “Make Money with Google AdSense” instead. Right now Google lists 3,440,000 results. That’s more manageable, but you’d like to search for more focused keywords. However, let’s optimize your blog to Make Money with Google AdSense just for the sake of learning.

SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible

First, you have to pay attention to the title of your blog. Since you’re optimizing to Make Money with Google AdSense you need to have that actual phrase in your blog title. For example, a line like “Learn How to Make Money with Google AdSense!” would work fine.

You can change the title of your blog in the Blogger control panel or the Wordpress blog when you’re creating it. If you’re proficient with HTML, you can even do that on other blog engines like Movable Type. What is the bottom line? Your page heading should also contain the term you’re optimizing for. Additionally, you should ‘sprinkle’ the words “Google AdSense” in your posts whenever possible.

The frequency of that phrase in your blog hints the search engines that your blog is really relevant to that topic. However, this is the most important bit of all. Always keep in mind that you’re writing for real life people who read your blog to obtain information, so it is very dumb to spam your blog with keywords! In fact, if you do that, the search engines will end up thinking you’re spamming and drop your ranking further down into oblivion. Hence write for humans, not search engines!

There’s no way you can make money online if you don’t value how SEO works!

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